Cape Wind makes cable connections

Firms based in South Carolina and New Jersey have received contracts from Cape Wind for offshore and onshore cables to operate the firm’s proposed 130-turbine wind farm in Nantucket Sound.

Patriot Staff

Firms based in South Carolina and New Jersey have received contracts from Cape Wind for offshore and onshore cables to operate the firm’s proposed 130-turbine wind farm in Nantucket Sound.

According to a press statement, Psysmian Cables and Systems USA, will make the onshore transmission cables in South Carolina and send its New Jersey-based installation team east to install them in duct banks leading to the NStar Barnstable substation. Falmouth-based Lawrence-Lynch Corp is building the duct banks.

Out on the Sound, Caldwell Marine International of New Jersey will install the underwater cables. “This is an opportunity for our company to become part of the supply chain of this new domestic offshore wind industry,” Caldwell president Rolando Acosta said in a press statement.